The First Chaos Emperor Sword, the Life-Extinguishing Sword

Three days later.

Great Zhen Imperial Court held the Grand Sacrifice.

All the Believers put on their finest clothes and combed their hair until not a strand was out of place. They carefully donned the ornaments they usually couldn't bear to wear.

Every city had a temple.

Before each temple lay a vast plaza.

On ordinary days, the Temple Plaza was open to everyone for rest and recreation.

But on the day of the Grand Sacrifice, the City Guard Army would be stationed all around the Divine Court Plaza. Only Believers invited by the temple could enter.

Without exception, those invited by the temple were the most devout worshippers in their city.

Seen from the Firmament.

The Tianyuan Great World was divided into two parts.

One part was the original territory of Great Zhen Imperial Court, where cities and people were densely packed.

It was divided into eight hundred great continents. Each continent had between eighty and a hundred prefectures, each prefecture had fifteen hundred commanderies, and each commandery had hundreds or even thousands of cities.

Beneath the cities were towns and villages.

The number of cities in the entire Great Zhen Imperial Court was staggering.

Its population density far exceeded that of any other great world.

Of course—

Though the population was dense, everything was orderly, with not a trace of chaos.

The other part was newly acquired territory, which accounted for the vast majority of the realm and was still under construction.

Great Zhen Imperial Court, Sihai Capital.

This capital had been expanded several times. It now covered an enormous area and could house over a hundred million people.

The Sacrificial Plaza lay in the north, occupying almost the entire northern part of the city.

The majestic Dao Lord Divine Temple stood there, its faint Divine Might filling